You’re listening to the Transform Your Life from the Inside Out podcast. This is a continuation of the series Shaman’s Tips for an Amazing 2026. Now in the prior episodes, I gave you multiple unrelated points. In this episode and the next one, I want to keep each of these episodes to a very cogent thought process with different points in that particular episode. So I want to go back here to a conversation 
 
that I had with Don Xavier back on May 30th, 2024. The foundation of that conversation was about the noise. And I don’t mean the noise in the external world, but the noise in the internal world, because he said that noise separates us from hearing, divine mind, God, guidance, and self-knowing. So at the end of this episode, I’ll talk about, and as he put it, how to have a direct experience with God. 
 
But first, we have to get out of the noise. Enjoy the episode. Hi, I’m Jim Fortin and you’re about to start transforming your life from the inside out with this podcast. I’m widely considered the leader in subconscious transformation and I’ve coached super achievers all around the world for over 25 years. Here you’re going to find no rah rah motivation and no hype because this podcast is a combination of brain science, transformational psychology and ancient wisdom all rolled into one. 
 
to take your life to levels you’ve never thought possible. If you’re wanting a lot more in life, to feel better, to heal, to have peace of mind, to feel powerful and alive, and to bring more abundance and prosperity into your life, then this podcast is for you because you’re going to start learning how to master your mind and evolve your consciousness. And when you do that, anything you want then becomes possible for you. I’m glad you’re here. We’re gonna talk about noise. 
 
But in the last episode or the last couple of episodes, I’ve talked about power. And that’s something that Don Hubiers talked to me about and those that work with him for literally 25, 30 years now is we have to maintain our power. And he’s often said that the warrior and warrior training, shaman training, the adept warrior conserves their energy because that is their power. What many of us do is we let the external world 
 
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take our energy from us. And in the next episode, I want to talk about noise and how we actually, we don’t stop the world. We get immersed in the world. We live in all the illusions of the world. And then all those illusions trap us and they suck us dry. What I also want to point out, these next two episodes are going to be about in-perspection, reflection, and not so much about a how-to. 
 
but they’re going to be more about awareness. So in this episode, what I want to start talking about in particular, and again, I’ll carry over to the next episode, and it also ties into a former podcast, actually one of the first 10 podcasts that I did. But in this episode, I want to talk to you about stopping all the noise in your internal world, because this noise keeps you from attaining the awareness of a higher level of you. 
 
So the first thing I want to put out here is that, think about this, dig into this, is that every reaction, every judgment, every thought is noise that pulls you out of your power. What I want to point out is that the average person lives in noise their entire lifetime, but they call it thinking. You know, people that are thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking, well, they don’t recognize that most of that thinking 
 
is not constructive thinking, it’s simply noise in their mind. And what he went on to say in this conversation is that the warrior learns to stop the world. A little later, I’m not sure if I’m going to do it in this episode or the next, I’ll repeat something that he said to me at least a decade ago about stopping the world. But he said the warrior learns to stop the world, to silence, to quiet the internal dialogue, dialogue, excuse me, 
 
long enough to see energy as it flows. I remember in part of that conversation, because many times I’m recording the conversations, but sometimes I’m just taking notes. Sometimes I’m doing none of that and I’m just sitting there being present and absorbing. But he said to those of us in the room, you want peace, clarity and freedom, but you can’t find them while you are enslaved by the noise. So think about that. 
 
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because I know that you want more peace, clarity and freedom. And many of us go looking for it and wanting it and craving it, but we can’t find it because we have so much noise. We’re consumed by the noise in the world and consumed by the noise in our head. You know, I recall as I think back here to many years ago when I live in Dallas, I can, I’m one of those people that I like being at home, but I like to get out also at lunchtime just to get out for a little bit. 
 
And in Dallas, I went to this place called Super Salad, which is near my house. And it was sitting right literally on the frontage road to the tollway, very busy passageway in far North Dallas. And as I’m sitting outside and I’m eating my lunch, my initial thought was what a beautiful day today. But OMG, is it so noisy because we were sitting also right at an intersection. 
 
And all this noise at the intersection and the honking and the tollway was just this almost like a wall of noise. Plus they had music playing on the loudspeakers and I was sitting outside and I looked around. No one noticed it. No one even noticed except me for the most part. In that moment, I recognized that we’re conditioned to live in both the external noise in the world, like I’m mentioning, 
 
And on top of that, not only do we have the external noise in the world, we have the internal noise, which is a noise inside our head, our self-talk and the constant dialogue going on in our mind. Now both can be destructive, but in my opinion, and I’m very noise sensitive, so the external noise can be challenging for me. But also the internal noise is way more destructive many times than the external noise. 
 
I also want to point out that if you’re new to my work, you may want to go back and even if you’re not new, you may want to go back to episode six when I talk about your superpower and I talk about the power of silence. Okay. So just a bit ago, I talked about peace. We all want peace, but peace is not something that you earn. It’s not something that you achieve. 
 
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It’s literally what’s left in you when you reclaim your awareness from the noise in the external world and then the internal world and you shut down your chatter. The peace and the silence are already in you. So what I want to do here is we kind of frame here. I want to talk about five different points that he talked about in the conversation at night. I got a good kick out of, I was reading this 
 
One line review about me from somebody that was bashing me and I’m fine with that. I mean, it’s not my favorite thing in terms. don’t really care if somebody bashes me. I just don’t want it to affect the work that I can do with other people. But the point is the person said in the article about the word quantum and they said, I run from anybody that uses the word quantum. Well, that’s an extreme lack of awareness and that we are all in the quantum. 
 
And I don’t mean that in the woo woo kind of way. But Don Hovier said, well, what he was talking about is the quantum field and the warrior’s frequency. And he said, quote, you don’t reach the quantum field. You enter it by dropping the illusion. It’s the space between thoughts. And it’s where we find the silence between the breaths, meaning each and every breath in between. 
 
is the silence, it’s the quantum. And we hear a lot of, a lot of people running around saying, you gotta raise your frequency, raise your frequency. And I’ve said that, what I recognized is that I never really fully explained what does that mean? Because many of us get in our heads and we try to analytically engineer and figure out, okay, how do I air quote, raise my frequency? 
 
Well, when you raise your frequency, you’re not going higher, air quote, you’re simply returning to the original vibration of truth, the frequency of the infinite. By the way, that’s the quantum. And then he said, and I made a note of this because I put it in quotes, he said, my dawn, meaning dawn one, because Don Xavier is my dawn and dawn one was his dawn. He said, my dawn would call that seeing 
 
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the world is energy, meaning literally just moving into the higher frequency by returning to the original vibration and truth. But the question is, I know you’re asking right now, is, well, okay, what does all that mumbo jumbo mean? And really what he’s saying is that, quote, this is what he said, and I wrote it down and I wanted to share this with you guys. When you stop the internal dialogue, 
 
When you release the self-importance and the fear, the world becomes luminous. The energy of life begins to communicate directly with you, not through logic, but through knowing. That is communion. That is coherence. That’s freedom from the crap of thought. Let me reiterate part of that to make it more concrete for you. 
 
When you stop the internal dialogue, when you release self-importance and fear, the world becomes luminous. So what Don Juan was saying there in Don Xavier, we spend so much time in the noise in our head and the noise externally that we literally don’t see the world for what it is and the beauty and the luminosity 
 
We simply see it through the illusion of our noise that we’re making. And we literally, you know, the world is giving us and we’re in it and then it and then it. And by the way, in the next episode, I’ll talk more about this and how that takes your power away from you. But typical Don Xavier, he jumps around a lot and it’s kind of like number one is you’ve got to pay attention when you’re sitting with him, but he’ll jump around, not through ADD or any of that. 
 
He jumps around a lot and he’ll say many things and then he will, or we will have to weave it together like into a pattern to be able to see the bigger picture. And he often talks about empathy and he said true empathy is a warrior’s connection because he said empathy is more than emotion. When I heard this, it was really insightful to me. 
 
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because I used to think that empathy is about having emotion for other people, having understanding about other people. And he said, empathy is more than emotion. It’s awareness. And he said, the warrior knows that when they feel the suffering of another, it’s not sentimentality. Here’s where it gets powerful. The warrior knows that when they feel the suffering of another, 
 
It’s not sentimentality, as I just said a bit ago as well, I’m repeating it, but here’s the power. It’s unity. think about that. It’s unity. And in that moment, we are feeling the pain and the experience of another being. And when he said this, it was so powerful to me. We are feeling that being. Let that settle in. We’re feeling that being. We’re connected. 
 
And that’s what he meant by the connection. It’s the unity. But then he went on to say, and Don Juan’s always used this phrase, and it’s not in any kind of judgmental way, but the word ordinary. And most of us live our lives in ordinary ways, meaning cars and bills and homes and internet launches and relationships and dates and money. And it’s all 
 
ordinary stuff. It’s all human fabrication. It’s all human made up. It’s all an illusion. But Don Juan said, ordinary people send love and light, but remain trapped in their own self-importance. Now ponder that. And what he meant by that is that they need to be seen as good. That’s their ego dressed as holiness. When you think about that one, wow. 
 
But when people think they’re being empathetic, what ordinary people do is ordinary people send love and light, but remain trapped in self-importance. They still need to be seen as good, and that’s ego dressed as holiness. He wanted to say that true empathy is when the self dissolves. You don’t help others, and to me that hit me pretty hard, is you don’t help others with your empathy. 
 
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But what you want to do is become one with them. And in that merging, the illusion of separation collapses. And that’s when energy heals. That’s when consciousness expands. So I want to talk more about this, but I want to talk about compassion. So let’s put that thought to the side for a moment and just mark that off as, you know, sharing one of the things he did this evening. 
 
Next is the trap of false compassion. Don Juan said, I remember actually was Donya Maria many years ago said, well, she said it in one way and Don Juan said it in another way. Let me give you an example. Many times we will have somebody say, my husband is really sick or my mother just died or, know, some kind of situation like that. And many times people in a very ordinary way will say, 
 
Poor, Susan. Can you believe what happened to her? And poor Bob, bless his heart. I feel so bad for Bob. Donya Maria once said to me, we think we’re sending love, but we’re not sending love. We are sending pity. Now Don Juan was saying, pity is not love. Pity is self-importance disguised as kindness. 
 
Pity is self-importance designed as kindness. Now what’s self-importance you might be wondering. Self-importance is about me, me, me, me, me. How are you going to see me? What are you going to think about me? And what I’m going to try to do is orchestrate or engineer a way for you to think good things about me. And here’s what he said also that was like, whoa, hit by a truck. When you react emotionally to another’s suffering, 
 
you descend into the noise. So meaning oftentimes we think that we are sending empathy and compassion out of love, but what we’re really doing is sending it out of ego and we’re descending into the noise, which I’ll talk about more in the next episode. But here’s what hit me like a truck. When a person is in that noise of all the pity, and then you actually empathize and get into the pity, 
 
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you match their vibration instead of holding a higher vibration. To me, that’s really powerful. I never thought about it that way until Don Hubbard shared that with me is if we are into our ego and then we’re offering up empathy or compassion, we literally are part of that noise and we’re lowering our frequency and vibration. And he went on to say that real compassion is silence. 
 
It’s literally just being quiet and it’s holding the presence. And when you hold the presence, it’s not reacting, it’s radiating. And here’s where I had another, aha, Holy Mackerel hit by a truck again. I think back many years ago, a friend of mine started going to Unity Church in Atlanta, Georgia when I lived there 20 years ago. 
 
And out of the blue, which is a bit uncharacteristic for him, he started saying, I moved to New York and we email back and forth. You know, how you doing? What’s going on? Blah, blah. And a few times he said, sending you love and light. That was again, 20 years ago. And a lot of people used to say, I’m sending love and light. And when I think about this conversation with Don Xavier, he said something here. I’m going to say it very slowly. 
 
because to me it’s a barn burner, it’s a show stopper, it’s getting hit by a truck or right between the eyes by a two by four. When you live from the heart, you don’t send love. You are love and that’s the energy that transforms without effort our story. But the part that really got me is that when you live from the heart, you don’t send love. 
 
You are love. Ponder that. Then he went on in this conversation and something that a lot of people, especially a lot of people listening to my podcast, they talk a lot about meditation. I think I wrote this down correctly back then, but he said that’s the warrior’s steel point, meaning the silent point. And 
 
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Meditation isn’t an escape like many of us think that it is. We think, okay, the outside world is, whoa, it’s crazy out here. I’m going to meditate and go inside. But he said meditation isn’t escape. It’s the art of stopping the world, which by the way, I will talk about in the next episode. And here’s something again, to me, there’s profoundness all over this particular short episode. And I think the recording itself was about 23 minutes long when I listened to it. 
 
And I’ve listened to it and listened to it and listened to it. And it’s the one that called to me to share with you in this episode. Donal beer said, you don’t meditate to relax. You meditate to remember you do that to step out of the dream of the mind and back into the dream of the knowing. Now, when he says mine, what he meant was is the chatter and the noise. And many of us meditate to step out of the chatter and the noise, which drains our power. 
 
But what he’s really saying here is when you meditate, meaning you get quiet and you get silent, what you’re doing is you’re stepping into the direct knowing and now you’re merging with the universe. Now, many people think that meditation is about meditation bells and bowls and ohms and all these kinds of things. And yes, those can be things. But Don Hovier said the warrior doesn’t need the incense or the candles or the posture. 
 
They simply sit in the awareness until the internal dialogue collapses. And when it does, reality becomes fluid, alive. Here’s this word again, and luminous. That’s the gateway to real seeing. That’s where we begin to hear the infinite in that silent space when we simply just get quiet internally. And even if we’re not in an externally quiet environment, 
 
we can still get quiet internally. Now, my little trick is when I’m enjoying some internal quietness, but I might be in an external environment, the only way that that external environment can affect me and pull me out of my internal environment is if I am paying attention to the external noise. So if I’m sitting in my quiet internal environment and it’s noisy outside, 
 
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And I’m paying attention to the noise like, holy shit, those people are loud. Man, man, I wish they’d be quiet. It’s loud here. I’m simply back into my own noise again internally. So I have found the way to keep the internal quiet is to not pay attention to the external. He wrapped up this part of the conversation by saying each moment of stillness strengthens the link with the infinite. 
 
Each moment of stillness strengthens your link and your connection to divine mind. Okay, the final point that he talked about in this conversation was the only moment that exists. And I’m not going to go into a big diatribe about that and really dig in deep at this moment, but we’ve all heard that the past and the future don’t exist. All that we have is right now. And I remember him saying the past is smoke. 
 
The future is a mirage. Only the present moment holds power. So think about that. Only the present moment holds power. So when you’re worried about the future or you’re lamenting about the past, one of those is smoke. One of those is a mirage. Neither are happening now. They’re happening in the noise of your mind and 
 
they rob you of power, which I’ll talk about in the next episode. And he went on to say that the warrior learns to live entirely here, meaning in the presence, in the now. And he said that they guard their awareness like a sacred fire. Basically what he’s saying there is we’re so distracted by the external world. And I’m going to tell you, I’ve said it before, 
 
The toxicity and what makes it even worse is the dopamine dumps and releases and drops because of social media and all the noise in the world. And I don’t know about you. mean, we’re all different and I can’t tell you how to live. There is so much toxicity in the world that’s been generated. It’s always been there. And you know, when I say that one of my favorite shows is from the 1970s. 
 
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I like it because of the comedic effect, not because of any of the social politics or any of that back at that time. But if you watch the show All in the Family, which was the number one show on TV from like 1971 to 1976, nothing has changed in the world from 1976 until now, 50 years later thereabouts. But people on social media get into all this noise. 
 
And all this noise drains them and sucks their power away. Why? Because it’s the noise. And when we go into that noise, we can’t connect with the divine mind. We can’t get the guidance. We can’t get the healing because we have effectively cut ourselves off a link, so to speak. It’s like hanging up the phone. We’ve cut ourselves off from the essence and the power, at least in terms of conscious awareness, because we’re never cut off from consciousness. 
 
but we have cut ourselves off from the awareness of higher divine mind. But Don Hovier went on to say in the final comment here is, when you occupy the now, right now, fully, when you’re in the now, and this can be a test for some of you guys, when you occupy the now, meaning this moment, this current moment, when you occupy the now fully, fear dies. 
 
Regret dissolves, noise disappears, and what remains is God, not as a belief, but as an experience and as a knowing. Hopefully this made sense to you and your transformational takeaway in this particular episode is the path of power begins with silence. And every time you stop your world, you reclaim your awareness. 
 
Every time you withdraw energy from the thoughts that distract you and return to your heart and the calmness, divine mind responds. Noise is the trap. Silence is the doorway and the heart is the power that walks through it. What I want to do in the next episode is I want to talk more about giving up our power and the noise. 
 
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and how and why we give up our power. So hopefully in this particular episode, it made sense to you. Go back and listen to it again. Take some notes on it, but you’ll find an extraordinary amount of wisdom in this particular episode that will help you find a lot of peace. When you go back and you listen again to this episode, not because I want you to listen to me. I don’t. I simply want you to absorb the wisdom. And when you go back through and you absorb the wisdom, 
 
You will find there are many places in your life that you’ve overlooked or places that you can find and you can see that can help you get out of the noise and become closer to that divine essence of you. Thank you for listening and I’ll catch you over on another episode. Bye bye.